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The Ivano-Frankivsk region police reported that the attackers, for hooligan reasons, removed the head from the bust of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
In Podpechery village, Tysmenytsya district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, law enforcement officers identified and located two 18-year-old local residents involved in the damage to the Taras Shevchenko monument. This was announced on March 6 by the press service of the regional police on its Facebook page.
“On March 5, in the morning, the police received a message that in the village of Podpechery, a territorial community of Ivano-Frankivsk, during the night, unknown persons damaged the bust on the pedestal of Taras Shevchenko. Bust of the Ukrainian poet of the established a pedestal and put it on the monument, “says the message.
Law enforcement officers noted that upon arrival, they examined the scene of the incident, interviewed witnesses and, in the course of investigative actions, identified and located unknown persons.
Intruder actions are qualified in Part 1 of Art. 296 (vandalism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The issue of reporting suspicions to offenders is being resolved, police said.
On March 5, Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said that vandals had damaged the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. According to him, the attackers they timed their actions with the poet’s birthday.
Taras Shevchenko was born on February 25 (March 9), 1814 in the village of Morintsy, Zvenigorodsky district, Kiev province (now Cherkasy region). He died on February 26 (March 10), 1861, in Saint Petersburg. He is a Ukrainian poet, artist and philosopher. Shevchenko’s first collection of poetry “Kobzar” was published in 1840.
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